Light Quotes
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.Coventry Patmore
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - - Such is a pleasure beyond compare.Kenko Yoshida
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.Albert Einstein
It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.Richard J. Ferris, president, United Airlines
I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.Mohammed Daud Khan
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.Albert Camus
I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.Martin Luthe
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.George Santayana
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.J. B. Priestley
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.Robert Frost
The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.C. C. Colton
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.Carl Sandburg
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.Nora Roberts
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.Dorothy Parker, book review
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.Ghandi, 1931
But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.William Shakespeare
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.Oscar Wilde
Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.Jane Goodall
We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.Jamie Lee Curtis
Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.George Eliot
Do not judge men by mere appearances for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.E. H. Chapin
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light.Maurice Freehill
To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.Napoleon I
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.Charles A. Lindbergh
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.Marquis de Sade
The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.Jean Baptiste Lacoraire
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.Desiderius Erasmus
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.Thomas De Quincey
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.Robertson Davies
During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.Fritjof Capra
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....Carl Zwanzig
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.Logan Pearsall Smith
There are two kinds of light - - The glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.James Thurbe
What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.M. C. Escher, Quoted in Comic Sections, D. MacHale (Dublin 1993)
